Hindu woman deceived and forced to convert to Islam by Pakistani Muslim man who hid his national identity

Case ID : 995834b | Location : Hyderabad, Telangana, India | Date of Incident : Thu, 14 August, 2025

Case ID : 995834b

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

14 August, 2025

Hindu woman deceived and forced to convert to Islam by Pakistani Muslim man who hid his national identity

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Forced conversion before marriage

Hate speech against Hindus

Violent threats

Case Summary

In Hyderabad’s Banjara Hills area, a Hindu woman named Kirti was deceived and subjected to religious conversion by a Pakistani Muslim man. The accused concealed his national identity. The accused, Fahad, entered India in 1998, later forging documents to settle in Hyderabad and obtain Indian citizenship in 2018. Using fake documents, he obtained employment at a company called Sipal in HITEC city. In 2016, he forced Kirti to convert to Islam, renamed her Doha Fatima, and married her under this false identity. Kirti, who had divorced her first husband in 2016, reported in her complaint that she was unaware of Fahad’s Pakistani origin at the time of their marriage. She said it was only later that she discovered not only his background but also that he had lured another woman, Jahbin (Jahbeen) Fatima, in a similar manner. For the last two and a half years, Kirti and Fahad have been living separately due to their strained relationship. The victim confirmed that Fahad constantly threatened to murder her if she refused to divorce him. The Hyderabad police registered a case at the Lunger House Police Station, arrested Fahad. At the time of writing this report, the investigation was ongoing.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category in this case is: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The subcategory under this is: Forced conversion before marriage. In such cases, a non-Hindu man is in a relationship with a Hindu woman when the pressure to convert her religion begins to manifest. In such cases, typically, two patterns emerge. First, when the relationship is consensual, and the religious identity of the perpetrator is known to the Hindu woman in the relationship, however, at some point during the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts to force the victim to convert her religion and give up her Hindu religious identity. The second is when the woman gets into a marriage with the man pretending to share her faith. Later, when the truth is revealed, the man starts pressuring the woman to convert her religion and give up her religious identity. In both the situations, the methods used to force the victim to convert her religion often revolve around force-feeding beef, forcing her to wear hijab, forcing her to read the Kalma or even pressurizing the victim to do ‘Nikah’, which is marriage under Islamic law, with a prerequisite being conversion to Islam. Cases where a Hindu woman consensually converts to Islam in a relationship will be left out of the hate crime database, even though it could be argued in several cases that the conversion was a result of religious brainwashing. The other primary category selected is - Hate speech against Hindus. The other sub-category selected is - Violent threats. Violent threats, explicit, implicit or implied, is the most dangerous form of hate speech since it goes beyond discriminatory and prejudicial language to express the intent of causing harm to an individual or a group of people based on their religious identity and faith. There could be several different kinds of threats that are issued to Hindus based on religious animosity. An explicit threat would mean the direct threat of violence towards an individual Hindu, a group of Hindus or Hindus at large. Physical violence, death threats, threats of destruction of property belonging to Hindus and threats of genocide would mean explicit threats against Hindus for their religious identity. Implicit threats may not be a direct threat but implied through the use of symbols of actions – for example – in the Nupur Sharma case, other than explicit threats, there were also implicit threats when Islamists took to the streets to burn and beat her effigies. It implies that they want to do the same to Nupur Sharma – thereby is considered an implicit threat. Violent threats can be delivered in person, through letters, phone calls, graffiti, or increasingly through social media and other online platforms. It would be important to understand that a threat – explicit or implicit, online or offline – to an individual who happens to be a Hindu does not qualify as a religiously motivated threat. Such a threat, while vile and dangerous, could be owing to non-religious reasons and/or personal animosity. To qualify as a religiously motivated threat, it would need to exhibit an indication that the individual is being targeted for religious reasons and/or owing to his/her religious identity as a Hindu. This case is categorised as a hate crime against Hindus because the Hindu victim was deliberately deceived by a Muslim man who concealed not only his national identity but also his religious intentions. The moment the relationship advanced, the Muslim perpetrator began forcing the woman to give up her Hindu religious identity and accept Islam. Such acts of coercion are not merely personal betrayals; they target the victim’s freedom to practice her faith and are directed against her Hindu identity itself. The underlying intent is to erase the woman’s Hindu religious belonging, using deceit and force as the tools to accomplish religious conversion. By coercing a Hindu woman to renounce her dharma, this becomes a hate crime targeted at Hindus as a community, because it directly undermines Hindu faith, practices, and continuity. The intention is not simply to marry, but to erase the Hindu identity of the victim and assimilate her into another religious fold through deception and compulsion. Thus, the crime is religiously motivated, directed specifically at Hindus, and contributes to a larger pattern of hostility against Hindus. Kirti reported that Fahad repeatedly threatened to murder her if she refused to divorce him. At first glance, this may appear as a marital dispute without a communal element. However, in this case, the marriage itself was built on a foundation of fraud, religious coercion, and forced conversion. Fahad had deceived her about his identity, forced her to abandon her Hindu faith, and renamed her under a Muslim identity. Therefore, the threats issued in the context of divorce cannot be separated from the religious coercion that framed their relationship. The threats qualify as religiously motivated because they were directed at a Hindu woman whose identity and personal safety had already been attacked through forced religious conversion. Threatening her life in the aftermath of coercing her into Islam reinforces the intimidation: it communicates that a Hindu woman who resists or separates after being forcibly converted risks severe violence. Thus, the threat, though expressed in the language of divorce, carries communal significance and amounts to a hate crime against Hindus. Disclaimer: It is important to clarify that the report does not specify the exact date when the woman’s ordeal began. Therefore, for documentation purposes, we have recorded the date based on when the incident was reported in the media.